We were fairly impressed with the 50IR camera from this company until
the filter clunk ran off most of our resident herd with
their tails up in the air. I followed the 30IR camera
that some had had already on one of the forums. I asked
a few questions and filter clunk was not an issue. My
contact person let me know that an updated version of
the 30IR had been delivered to Academy Sports and I made
the trip and bought one. This camera has now been
upgraded to 5 MP through interpolation which gained a
little higher degree of interest. They also stated that
the battery life had also been increased to 90 days.

Out of the box all looked good until I went to install the batteries.
After a 30 minute ordeal, I managed to install the 4 C
cells and managed to get the review pictures. From that
time it was all down hill. The programming was difficult
due to flakey switches. The filter clunk on transition
was very loud. I started the initial testing and sensing
at 70 degrees was very weak. The minimum delay was 1
minute according to the switch but proved out to be
about 20 seconds past that. The trigger time is around 3
seconds when I could get it to trigger. The next thing
was the picture quality. It was just plain bad. Even
with very good light it was very fuzzy. The IR pictures
all had blur and were terrible.

I am not going to continue this review, because this must be a Friday
night assembly line camera or it is just plain bad. If
this is an upgraded version of the 3MP camera then I
would hate to have purchased one of those. This review
is closed. The $75 price tag will buy a whole lot more
camera (another brand) than this camera and performance
will far exceed what I found here. Things like 15 second
delay and 1 second trigger with good picture quality.

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